By Marci Cohen, Assistant Head, Music Library, Boston University Ready for escapist hits for the summer? British singer Jessie Ware has the answer with That! Feels Good!, a collection of odes to pleasure heavily steeped in disco aesthetics. A Top 10 mainstay in...
By Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Charleston Conference Director “The first person we ought to serve is the author…The author should have as many options as possible.” Elliot Lumb on ATG the Podcast Peer review is an essential part...
By: Nicole Ameduri (Licensing Manager, Springer Nature) This article is originally from Against the Grain v34#5 Nicole Ameduri, Springer Nature Licensing Manager, loves eating her way through conferences. Through some random twist of fate...
By Marci Cohen, Assistant Head, Music Library, Boston University May 20 and 21 mark the second installment of the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, following last year’s premiere, postponed from 2020 due to COVID. While better-known festivals such as Coachella...
By Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Charleston Conference Director Ivy Cavendish “Individual papers are only unique by virtue of the data they are presenting. But the underlying patterns are repeated across the board.” Ivy Cavendish...
By Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief, Charleston Briefings, and a Director for the Charleston Conference Tony Zanders “The library is a nonprofit software company.” (Tony Zanders) Skilltype is a tech startup much in the news these days in the library world. Sage...
9-29-23 What wonderful people you meet living on the water at Sullivan’s Island! Just met Jake and Ruby and their teenage adult/children. They have come all the way from North Dakota and some of them have never seen the ocean! They have moved their business from North...
Celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 According to ACRL Insider "Peer Review Week is annual event celebrating the value of peer review and the essential role it plays in maintaining research quality. Running from September 25 to 29, 2023, it brings together scholarly...
MIT Libraries Receives Grant From Mellon Foundation to Support Postdoctoral Research Program According to this post on the MIT Libraries website "MIT Libraries has received a grant of $500,000 from the Mellon Foundation for a second cohort in the postdoctoral research...
New Report: “Alternative Publishing Platforms. What Have We Learnt?” Citing Knowledge Exchange, infoDOCKET reports that "Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from...
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